La Ronda 431 — Hotel in Centro Histórico

when we arrived, the only person working there was about to leave and we were lucky to catch him before. Otherwise we wouldn't have been able to enter our room.||- Once we had wifi we saw a mail and a whatsapp message from the owner who wanted to know when we arrived. How many travelers have permanent internet access? So make sure you tell them beforehand when you come - otherwise you might find an empty/closed hostel.||- booking.com says there is a 'fully equipped kitchen'. However, there were no cutleries and no stove/oven. This was very frustrating since having a kitchen was one of our main criteria for chosing this hostel.||- The note in the room says check out time is at 2pm. When we got back to the hostel at 12.30pm the owner was asking if we wanted to stay one more night and then got mad and claimed that check out time is 12pm, that this is the case in every hostel and that we should hurry up.When we pointed out that the note said 2pm, she snapped at us and just said yeah well it's a spelling mistake ('mal escrito'). ||- wifi doesnt work.||||Overall a very bad experience. No kitchen, no staff around, and very unfriendly owner who has probably never heard of the word costumer service. ||We dont recommend it, there are nicer and waaaay cheaper places in...

We had booked through Agoda, however the confirmation email had incorrect dates. As we were nearby we popped in. At 3pm the place was deserted, the only member of staff available was part of the restaurant. Eventually we made ourselves understood (language barrier, no fault of the cook she was really nice, just our bad Spanish) and a member of the hotel staff was rung. Through the language barrier we got our dates sorted. The room we were give was huge, with a very comfortable bed. The shower however was a bit scary, with exposed wires running to the shower head from the wall. The rooms are on a gallery above the restaurant, which is open Wednesday through Sunday in the evenings. They blare music out until midnight, which we could hear loudly through the thin walls. We resorted to hanging duvets over the windows and doors and sleeping with ear plugs in. Breakfast the next morning was good, typical Ecuadorean fruit and eggs. When we tried to get the hotel staff to book us a taxi they tried to get us to use a hotel service that was easily twice the cost of the yellow taxi we ended up getting. We ate in the restaurant one exhausted evening, it...

I loved this place! A small, Spanish gallery style building in La Ronda, it was incredibly quiet when inside. However, outside at night the area was really alive. Loads of cheap restaurants and bars, street performers and locals participating in the best of Quito - which is fantastic. My room was extremely comfortable and clean after a minor misunderstanding early on. Breakfast was good and Gloria will arrange tours for you. Mine were fantastic. Laundry was cheap and well done. I've stayed there twice - that says something. The only draw back was the wifi. It was too weak in my room, but fine when I sat out on the internal balcony - a...